CULTURE IN TRANSLATION FREE

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We can certainly attempt to create just and free societies whereД¬itizens are free to be as privatistic as possible, as long as they do so on their own Rorty believed fervently that there is no way in which philosophy or any other theoretical disciplineД¬an ever let us create a more comprehensive philosophical outlook that would somehow combine within a single vision self-creationДЄnd private perfection with justice and human solidarity. Those writing in favour of the shared, social effort to make our institutions and practices more just and less cruel, as exemplifiedД«y Marx, Habermas and Rawls. The pursuit of self-created private perfection and autonomous human life such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Heidegger and Somewhere in the acres of column inches filled by this public debate we witness theДЄttempt to conjoin two mutually antithetical orientations that Rorty identified with regard to writing: those who write in The extent of their suffering and our duty to act upon it. Result of new border controls, the real debate is about how we imagine other people, Safely, only to find themselves stranded without access either to asylum procedures or to basic humanitarian services as a But while state organs grapple with these questions and the fourth and fifthД®states of the media and Internet become the battleground of debate, for the thousands of refugees who have reached Europe So that the greatest burden is not borne by only the countries of first arrival? How many refugees should each country take?Д«y what criteria should these numbers be reached? What standards of care should states provide to refugees while their casesДЄre being processed? The questions go on and on. To what extent do European member states have a responsibility towards refugees and, if so, how should this responsibilityД«e enacted? How should the economic and social cost of responsibility be shared out more equally among the countries of Europe The most urgent questions of our time 2are nowД«eing asked. In our debating chambers, in our newspapers, on our radios, on social media and on our television screens, some of Of mutilated bodies washed up on the shores of the Aegean and the Mediterranean, capsized dinghies, the erection of razor-wireДЇences, changes to border policy and refugees sewing their lips shut in protest gives the impression of nothing short of aД¬risis. Syria the second and third most common countries of origin are Afghanistan and Eritrea (UNHCR, 2015). One-third of the people who arrived safely by sea to the shores of Italy or Greece during this period were from People who crossed the Mediterranean Sea into Europe during the first six months of 2015 were fleeing from war, conflict or According to the UNHCR, the majority of the 137,000 War in Syria and military intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. OfД¬ourse, this is a question that has divided European member states for some time, not least following the outbreak of civil This, the battle lines have once again been drawn and this time division in Europe is over the question of immigration. Although battles between European member states are now fought across boardroom tables, betweenДiplomats, civil servants and heads of government, ideological division appears to be more prevalent now than ever. The economic union of states that emerged from the Second World War, we do not, in our present configuration, enjoy a sense Successive horrors of war, genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing and economic collapse. To say that Europe is in a perpetual state of crisis appears to make light of the

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